George F. Weeks

Journalist Timothy Turner tells this account of meeting Ivor Thord-Gray:

"One day Weeks and I were in the bar when a tall, fine-looking Britisher arrived and ordered a split of champagne with aristocratic simplicity. We got acquainted and, after that English diffidence with which he was enshrouded wore off, he turned out to be a fine fellow.

Ivor Thord-Gray wrote of American Journalist George.Weeks , along with Timothy Turner, as the men who helped him secure his commission under General Obregon. Thord-Gray said of them: “we became lifelong friends”

For George.Weeks, Mexico was a second chance at life after profound personal tragedy that left him a shattered man: the murder of his son and his son's fiancé in California.  After selling his newspaper, he suffered a nearly fatal battle with tuberculosis and retired to Mexico in his mid 50's. It was in Carranza’s hometown of Cuatro Cienegras that George Weeks was reborn.   Like Tim Turner, George Weeks loved Mexico.